Ski & Snowboard News / Brighton's Bone Zone

Oct 29, 2015 05:10PM
● By Harriet Wallis

photo credit: Brighton

Known for its radical terrain
parks, Brighton goes one step further. It has
created a totally natural terrain park of fallen logs and rough timber – the
way terrain parks used to be. Until now, such terrain parks have sprung up in
the woods off Guardsman
Pass and they had a huge
underground following of terrain park addicts.

“We
had been creating parks in the woods for years during the pre-season,"
said Alex Andrews and Ted Borland, Utah
snowboard pros. " Since Brighton is our favorite place to ride, it
was a perfect fit to bring the Bone Zone there.”

Jared Winkler, Brighton's
PR and marketing director, has a different spin on it. A lot of athletes come
to the mountain after it snows but before the mountain opens, he said. They'd
move many of our terrain park features from where they're stored and drag them
out onto the hill to use them. But that would ultimately slow down the process
of opening the mountain. "We feel
this is a great alternative that makes everyone happy,” he said.

The BoneZone is located in Brighton’s
beginner area known as Explorer. Riders can walk up the hill and use the rough
hewn park until the resort opens. After that the features will be moved.